Acquiring customer obsessed businesses across 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ Second Bite Capital / Proud Dad 👦👦 and Husband
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Was speaking with another independent sponsor and he mentioned he raised $5M from connections on X!
That seems wild to me, are there IS investors on this platform?
Reza Jafer retweeted
We have 2 spots left in our CEO Peer Advisory group in Silicon Valley.
We launch on Wednesday, May 20th.
Starts with a great lunch, then a closed door CEO peer advisory session, professionally facilitated.
Appetizers to follow.
Intimate group of ambitious CEOs, working together.
Is this the right room for you to be in?
Reza Jafer retweeted
Tracking the wrong YouTube metric can send your channel in the wrong direction.
If you figure out what you want to build first, the right metric becomes obvious.
X - your ability to connect ppl is 👌 so here it goes:
We’re diving deep into the M/E/S engineering space and looking to speak with operators/advisors/people knowledgeable about the space and open to a 30 min chat.
If anyone comes to mind please tag or DM :)!
Ran to a convenience store last night for my kids’ lunches. After paying, a person in need approached asking for money or food.
We filled a basket together, I paid, we parted.
Can’t tell you how ridiculous I felt holding coconut water
Why isn’t @LinkedIn a personal CRM?
- show me when we connected
- create a space on someone’s profile for notes (met at xxx, etc)
- I’m looking forward people in my network that have worked at, have experience with and help me sift
I get requests all the time from awesome summer interns. This is great advice. I wish I could answer all the email requests.
we get a few dozen emails a year asking for an internship. we don't have the setup to make it happen, and here's my advice to those looking:
- most shops, especially small ones, will not have an internship program
- if you're going to get a gig, you have to create the job
- be proactive about "what you'll do"; some ideas: "I will spend the summer / holiday break... landscaping the lp community to organize and identify potential investors for your next raise / i see you're invested in chicken shacks I will identify and cold call 1000 chicken shacks in search of add-ons / I see you're invested in home services but not paving or snowplowing - I'll research and write industry reports to help determine whether or not you should pursue those sectors / I will research the top regional accounting firms to know in your preferred MSAs for potential deal sourcing..."
- you get the drill. be specific and proactive 🤘
What’s your take on hiring C suite early in standing up a platform?
Do you eat the J-curve harder or delay the hire?
Assume further equity is unclear
Has anyone used a recruiter for a senior level role? Best advice?
Standing up a new platform and need a CFO asap
ChatGPT just saved our vacation.
ACs were erroring out in our Airbnb and it’s 95 F outside.
Owner/PM was completely useless and no after hour trades were getting back to them
Chat helped me step by step and got me into the master mechanical room for the building… LFG 🔥
New pet peeve unlocked.
Sellers adjusting rent to “market” the week of closing!!
Re-trade incoming 1 week to close 🥴
Frustrating Friday story:
Seller’s lawyer has convinced them that their “tax receivable” should be in working capital and I should pay them for it now.
😭🤦♂️ send help
Got our first inbound lead from a customer that found our courier service through ChatGPT. Didn’t think it would come this soon